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Jonathan Swift Quotes: So endless and exorbitant are the desires of men that they will grasp at all, and can form no scheme of perfect happiness with less.
         

So endless and exorbitant are the desires of men that they will grasp at all, and can form no scheme of perfect happiness with less.


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